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The Hourglass Path: Book One of the Continuum Cycle trilogy
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Hourglass Path is a high-concept speculative short story collection-the foundational entry in The Continuum Cycle.
Inside, explore seven distinct, bite-sized tales where everyday life collides with subtle temporal anomalies:
- The Afternoon That Vanished - A single afternoon slips through the cracks of reality, leaving behind a mystery that can't be unlearned.
- The Lost Summer of 1998 - Nostalgia meets a temporal rupture, unearthing memories that shouldn't exist.
- The Commute That Felt Like a Blink - A routine daily drive turns into an unsettling glitch in time.
- The Birthday That Arrived Too Soon - When time accelerates, a celebration becomes a race against an unfolding future.
- The Week That Wouldn't End - Trapped in a subtle loop of repetition, where every choice echoes endlessly.
- The Year That Disappeared Into Routine - The frightening speed at which unremembered time slips away-and what is stolen in the process.
- The Day They Realized They'd Grown Up - A poignant, high-concept look at the quiet moment childhood becomes history.
Looking for quick, thought-provoking sci-fi you can read in a single sitting?
Perfect for commuters, busy readers, or fans of time-bend fiction and speculative mysteries.
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The Continuum Cycle
Across three books, The Continuum Cycle explores a world where time is not an abstract measure but a living force-felt, carried, borrowed, and sometimes broken. The trilogy moves between intimate vignettes and sweeping narrative, revealing how ordinary lives bend under the quiet weight of passing hours.
In The Hourglass Path, a constellation of standalone stories introduces the rules and mysteries of this universe, each centered on a different figure point whose choices ripple through unseen timelines.
The Timekeeper's Ledger narrows the focus to a single journey, following Marlin Quill as he uncovers the machinery behind time itself-its ledgers, its guardians, and the consequences of imbalance. Finally,
Borrowed Seasons returns to multiplicity, offering a reflective collection of stories shaped by the emotional weather of the four seasons and the moments we hold onto before they slip away.
Together, these books form a tapestry of possibility, consequence, and memory-an exploration of how time shapes us, and how we shape it in return.
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